I have a quartz domeless nail. I've never used quartz. I know I can burn anything off in the pot, can I use ISO to soak the reclaim from the center tube?

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I use quartz all the time. It's a little bit of a bitch balancing the temp cause after each load you have to burn off what ever remains. I usually soak it in ISO over night and once its kinda clean, I burn the rest off.

I use quartz all the time. It's a little bit of a bitch balancing the temp cause after each load you have to burn off what ever remains. I usually soak it in ISO over night and once its kinda clean, I burn the rest off.

With that being said, once you've used quartz there's no going back.

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I just soak mine in ISO every couple nights.

Quartz has been my favorite for a long time. I recently got some custom Boro nails. I have been enjoying the flavor.

I've heard that boro get's red the quickest out of the 3. (glass, quartz, boro) I'd like to eventually try Boro.

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Boro defiantly gets hot. But it is not faster then the others. It heats up the slowest, but retains the heat the longest. It has the best thermal expansion numbers. So should withstand the abuse better. My first 18mm Boro nail lasted 3x longer than any other glass type nail I have owned(15+).

Here are there Thermal conductivity values. The lower the number the longer it takes to heat. But the better it retains that heat. Yes Titanium does not hold heat the best. No matter what anyone else tries to tell you. I have run experiments on this for years.

"Its easy to see why we could incorrectly assume titanium retains heat longer than glass or quartz because with daily use we notice the titanium gets much hotter after 30 seconds of heating than the glass does. This isn’t because the glass couldn’t retain the heat, its because the glass wasn’t heated long enough to get to temperature in the first place due to its low thermal conductivity value. Look at those numbers again, you would probably want to torch glass or quartz at least 5x longer if not more to reach the same temperature levels you reach with titanium. So the fallacy we have heard so often that “titanium retains heat better than boro or quartz” needs to be corrected to “titanium has a higher thermal conductivity value than boro or quartz”."